Schedule of Events

Destination Iowa State - COMEDY PERFORMANCE! - Andrew Kennedy
Sat, 23 Aug 2003, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free. - Priority seating for those participating in Destination Iowa State. Andrew Kennedy can be seen on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," "New Joke City" with Robert Klein and BET's "Comic View Best of." He is half Colombian, half British and fully bi-lingual. Growing up around the world, he has insight into people and culture others do not. A regular on the New York City comedy club circuit, Andrew performs all over the east coast and has over six years of sketch and improvisational comedy experience. His performances at the world famous Apollo Theater and most recently at the Montreal Comedy Festival have created a lot of buzz. The Performing Arts Weekly Back Stage calls him "the breaking talent to watch this year..."

Presidential Caucus Series - How to Create a Future - Dennis J. Kucinich
Tue, 02 Sep 2003, 2:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio and leader of the Progressive Caucus, is a presidential candidate. This series is designed to provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with an opportunity to question all presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses on January 19.

From the Daily Show and Comedy Central - Mo Rocca
Thu, 04 Sep 2003, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free - Mo Rocca, senior political correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, is best known for his wacky, tongue-in-cheek news reports. Indecision 2000, The Daily Show's coverage of the presidential race, garnered both an Emmy and a Peabody Award. Rocca and the team from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were named Rolling Stone's People of the Year 2000.

History of Science Series - The Pill: A Technological Revolution and Its Social Consequences - Donald T. Critchlow
Tue, 09 Sep 2003, 8:00 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology Auditorium - Donald T. Critchlow is professor of history at Saint Louis University, and editor of the Journal of Policy History. His books include Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America; Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Auto Company; America! A Concise History; and The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society. He received his doctorate and masters from the University of California, Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University.

The Red Chinese Puzzle or What Is Behind the Upheaval in China - Dick Wilson
Mon, 15 Sep 2003 – Memorial Union - Dick Wilson is a British writer, radio commentator on Asia.

Food Safety and Security in the Restaurant Industry - Jorge Hernandez
Mon, 15 Sep 2003, 3:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Jorge Hernandez is vice president of food safety and risk management for the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF). In this newly created role, he heads the efforts to define NRAEF's food safety and risk management market offerings. Hernandez also works with senior staff members to create strategic plans, as well as develops and manages business plans around these offerings. In addition, he maintains responsibility for NRAEF's science and regulatory relations team.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - An Evening with Annie Proulx
Mon, 15 Sep 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Annie Proulx became the first woman to win the PEN/Faulkner book award, for her debut novel Postcards. The following year she won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News, which was made into a film featuring actor Kevin Spacey. She published collection of short stories, Heart Songs, a collections of short stories and essays, Close Range, Wyoming Stories, and the novels Accordion Crimesand That Old Ace in the Hole. Annie Proulx is a contributor to many anthologies and periodicals including Best American Short Stories 1997, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Distinguished Professor of English Mary Swander will interview Annie Proulx and lead a q & a with the audience following her reading.

ISU Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Landmark Supreme Court Ruling - Opening Doors, Opening Minds:Brown vs. the Board of Education
Wed, 17 Sep 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Roger Wilkins is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University and a member of the U. S. 50th Anniversary Commission on Brown v. Board of Education. He served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson Administration, and has been both witness to and participant in some of the major historical events of our time, from the Civil Rights movement to the campaign to end apartheid. While on the editorial page staff of The Washington Post, he was cited by the Pulitzer Prize committee in 1972 for Watergate coverage along with Woodward, Bernstein, and Herblock. He is the author of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism and his autobiography, A Man's Life, and he was co-editor with Fred Harris of Quiet Riots. His undergraduate and law degrees are from the University of Michigan. This 1954 ruling ended segregation in public schools and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to engage in discussion surrounding the case at this event and others scheduled throughout the year including the President's "Conversations on Diversity."

Insect Horror Film Festival
Thu, 18 Sep 2003, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This celebration of insect life includes activities for all ages: hissing cockroachs, giant millipedes, insect displays, an insect tasting event, and the film, "Eight Legged Freaks". Doors open at 6 p.m. and film starts at 7:30 p.m.

Strategies to Diversify Faculty and Staff Ranks - Denice D. Denton
Mon, 22 Sep 2003, 10:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Denice D. Denton is the Dean of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. She held previous positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Denton works extensively on engineering education reform and co-directed the National Institute for Science Education in 1995-1996. She currently directs the University of Washington's NSF ADVANCE program and works actively to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to consider careers in Science and Engineering. She was instrumental is developing the UW Faculty Recruitment Toolkit which integrates issues specific to faculty recruitment of women and minority faculty within the general document.

Attributes of Successful Engineers: What they don't teach you in school - Paul Anderson
Mon, 22 Sep 2003, 7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditoirum, Howe Hall - Paul Anderson is a Lockheed Martin Astronautics senior manager, who grew up in Ames watching his dad head coach the ISU Men's Basketball team. After working for many years on several space projects, he has had the opportunity to recognize a few very important, "non-technical" skills in the workplace that are invaluable to engineers. The first 100 attendees will receive a Free Lockheed Martin T-Shirt. Reception following.

Banned Book Week - The Patriot Act and Libraries
Wed, 24 Sep 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gina Millsap, Ames Public Library Director; Olivia Madison, Dean of the University Library; and Barbara Mack, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, will discuss the impact of Homeland Securities measures on public and university libraries. Michael Bugeja, Director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, wil moderate the discussion.

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man and The Myth - Joseph Pearce
Sun, 28 Sep 2003, 1:00 PM – Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Joseph Pearce is the author of Tolkien: Man and Myth and the editor of Tolkien: A Celebration. He is a Writer in Residence and Professor of Literature at Ave Maria College in Michigan

WE THE PLANET - Activism, Discussion and Music!
Sun, 28 Sep 2003, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free - Musician Tracy Chapman, environmental activist and author Julia Butterfly Hill and sustainable agriculture activist Howard Lyman will be joined by local citizens for a dynamic discussion with audience members about the most pressing issues facing our planet, our country and communities. Following the discussion, Tracy Chapman will play a 30-minutes acoustic set. The panel is traveling the U.S. in a bus powered solely by vegetable oil and bio diesel fuel (non-petroleum).Women's Week 2003 and the Committee on Lectures welcome local groups to distribute information in the lobby during the event.

Women's Week 2003 - Bridging the Personal and Political: A Global Perspective - Adrien Wing
Mon, 29 Sep 2003, 7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Adrien Wing is the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. She specializes in both U.S. and international law, and has published in such areas as constitutionalism in Namibia, South Africa and Palestine; critical race feminism; legal decision-making in the Palestinian intifada; rape in Bosnia; women's rights in Palestine and South Africa; and foreign sovereign immunity and the act of state doctrine.

Women's Week 2003 - No! Addressing Rape and Sexual Assault in the African American Community - Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Tue, 30 Sep 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning, independent, feminist filmmaker and the founder and president of the multimedia arts company AfroLez Productions. She will show her film "NO!" which explores the issues of race, gender, homophobia, rape, and misogyny from a Black feminist lesbian perspective. A discussion with the audience will follow.

Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling/2004 Campaign Preview - Eleanor Clift
Wed, 01 Oct 2003, 7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor at Newsweek, and co-authored, with her husband Tom Brazaitis, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics, a look at Washington through the eyes of its several prominent personalities. Their newest work, Madam President, examines a woman's prospects in a run for the White House. Clift is a panelist on the volatile The McLaughlin Group and provides commentary for the Fox News Channel. She has appeared as herself in the feature films: Dave, Rising Sun, Independence Day, Murder at 1600, and the television comedy Murphy Brown. Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Mary Louise Smith Chair.

Women's Week 2003 - Media Images/Lived Realities: Women in the Middle East - Susan Schaefer Davis
Thu, 02 Oct 2003, 7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Schaefer Davis first went to Morocco with the Peace Corps in the 1960s to work in a rural women's center and has returned often, doing research on gender and working on development projects. She also is a social scientist with extensive experience as a development practitioner in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt for agencies including the World Bank, FAO, USAID and the Peace Corps. She has written numerous articles on these topics and two books, Patience and Power: Women's Lives in a Moroccan Village, and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town. She has traveled to Iraq, Palestine and Israel as Clerk of the Middle East Panel for the American Friends Service Committee. Her has undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters and doctoroate in anthropology from the University of Michigan, with post-doctoral work at Harvard.

Sigma Xi Lecture - Heresy, Excommunication and Other Weeds in the Garden of Science - Theodore Rockwell
Thu, 02 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Theodore Rockwell has been directly involved in nuclear power for nearly 60 years, starting in an elite Process Improvement Task Force at the war-time atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he transferred to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and became Head of the Radiation Shield Engineering Group.He is a member of the Health Physics Society, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and a vice president and a founding director of Radiation, Science & Health, Inc., an international non-profit organization of independent radiation experts committed to bringing radiation policy into line with the best scientific data and theory.

Hispanic Heritage Month - Family Weekend - Fiesta of the Americas
Fri, 03 Oct 2003, 9:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union -- Free Admission - Join Orquesta Rumba as they take you on a journey through the best of Latin American music. Under the direction of Angel Rodriquez, this 10-piece ensemble plays salsa, merengue, cumbia, bachata, mambo and more. The band's mambo medley features the tunes made famous by the later Tito Puente. Along with a wide selection of today's top hits, Orquesta Rumba plays a little of something for all Latin dance aficionados. Joining Rumba is Mexican vocalist Jesus Enriquz, a Sony RMM recording artist, who will bring "The Best of Mexico" to the stage. Trio Manases also takes the stage playing the ballads of Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia.

Hispanic Heritage Month - An Iowa Mother Searches for Justice in Her Native Land - Denese Becker
Mon, 06 Oct 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Denese Becker, adopted as a young child by Iowans, will discuss her discovery that she was the only one in her immediate family to survive government-sponsored massacres in Guatemala of hundreds of villagers in what was later termed "genocide" by the UN-sponsored Truth Commission. The documentary about her journey, "Discovering Domina" will be shown at 7 p.m. sponsored by Humanities Iowa, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Arts. At 8 p.m., ISU History and Latino Studies Professors Jerry Garcia and Patrick Barr-Melej will lead a discussion with Denese Becker and audience members.

The Commercial Closet
Wed, 08 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Commercial Closet Association works to lessen social discrimination of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by encouraging corporations and ad agencies' to improve LGBT portrayals in - mainstream advertising. The project is not activist in nature, but educates the business world as a peer through journalism, public relations, public speaking, and an interactive virtual museum collection of over 1,200 ads from around the world since 1917. Veteran ad and media journalist Michael Wilke and a board of industry professionals carry out its mission.

College of Design 25th Anniversary Keynote Address - The Next 25 Years: Changes in Design and Design Education - Susan Szenasy
Thu, 09 Oct 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Szenasy is chief editor of Metropolis, a NYC-based magazine of architecture, culture and design. She also teaches design history and ethics at the Parsons School of Design, and is co-founder of R.Dot (Rebuild Downtown Our Town), a coalition of New Yorkers contributing their expertise to building the 21st century metropolis at the site of the former World Trade Center. Her publications include "The Home" and "Light." A frequent lecturer and panel moderator on broad-ranging design topics, she is the guiding light behind Metropolis's conferences, including Wonderbrands, Wonderbrands West and Net@Work, Business UnUsual, Teaching Green and Design Entrepreneurs the Next Generation. She has a master's degree in modern European history from Rutgers University and an honorary doctorate of arts from Kendall College of Art and Design.

Women's Week 2003 - Why Family and Work Conflict and What We Can Do about It - Joan Williams
Fri, 10 Oct 2003, 12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Joan Williams is Professor and Director of the Program on Gender, Work, and Family American University Law School, and author of Unbending Gender; Why Family and Work Conflict and What We Can Do about It.

What Do Catholics Really Believe about Sin? - Edward Collins Vacek
Mon, 13 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Edward Collins Vacek is a professor of Christian Ethics, the director of Masters of Theological Studies Program and chair of the Moral Theology Department at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Love, Human and Divine, and serves on the editorial board of Erosophia: A Journal for the Philosophy of Sex and Love and The Philosophy of Sex and Love. He also is on the board of the Society of Christian Ethics.

Hunger-Free World: The Final Milestone - M.S. Swaminathan
Tue, 14 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - M.S. Swaminathan was a founding father of the Green Revolution in India and the first World Food Prize Laureate. He is co-coordinator of the United Nations Millennium Project Hunger Task Force and heads the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in India which he founded. He has also been India's Secretary for Agriculture, Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, International Rice Research Institute, Independent Chairman of the FAO Council, and President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. He is a member of the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy and the Italian and Chinese Academies. His honours include the World Food Prize, UNEP's Sasakawa Award and the Tyler and Honda Prizes. He holds a doctorate in plant genetics from Cambridge University. Special Guest: Dr. Norman Borlaug. Annual Norman Borlaug Lecture

Presidential Caucus Series - Campaign 2004 - Carol Moseley Braun
Wed, 15 Oct 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carol Moseley Braun was the first f African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, when she was elected in 1992. She served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand from 1999-2001. Since her return in 2001 from her ambassadorial posting, she has taught law and political science at Morris Brown College and DePaul University, along with a business law practice and business consultancy in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois and her law degree from the University of Chicago. This series is designed to provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with an opportunity to question all presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses on January 19.

SUB Forums and Committee on Lectures - Ames City Council Candidate Forum
Sun, 19 Oct 2003, 2:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - City Council candidates for At-Large and Fourth Ward will address issues of concern to Iowa State University students. For the first time in history, 4 Iowa State University students will be running city council seats. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics will moderate.

The Center for Excellence in the Arts - A Multidisciplinary Conversation -- What's Nature Worth? - Scott Slovic
Tue, 21 Oct 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Scott Slovic is director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Nevada and a professor of literature and the environment. He was the founder and president (1992-95) of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and edits the organization's journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with guest Peggy Barlett, professor of anthropology at Emory University and activist for sustainable development, Art and Design professor Steve Herrnstadt, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering professor Ramesh Kanwar, Leopold Center director Fred Kirschenmann, and History professor Jay Taylor.

The Greening of ISU - Peggy Barlett
Wed, 22 Oct 2003, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Peggy Barlett will lead a workshop discussion of ways to make ISU more sustainable and "green" using the Emory University Piedmont Project as a model. She is a professor of Anthropology at Emory and author of Agricultural Choice and Change and American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis.

Socially Responsible Investing - Alya Z. Kayal
Thu, 23 Oct 2003, 12:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - This presentation will be repeated at 2:00 p.m. in the same location. Alya Z. Kayal is a Senior Analyst for International/Human Rights with the Calvert Group Ltd. where she specializes in analyzing international/human rights issues for U.S. and international companies. She has extensive experience in this area with the United Nations, the U.S. Information Agency, the Soros Foundation, and the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association's international law division. She has a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and an undergraduate degree in Sociology and International Communications from Rutgers.

Institute on World Affairs Series - The View from Al Jazeera - Omar al-lssaw
Thu, 23 Oct 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Omar al-Issaw Is a reporter and producer for Al Jazeera. One of the original creators of the satellite news operation serving the Arab world, he worked previously for the BBC and has covered events in Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan, Croatia and elsewhere around the globe. In addition to his reporting duties, he produces documentaries for Al Jazeera, including a heralded 15-part series on the war in Lebanon. Born in Kuwait to Lebanese parents, the English-speaking al-Issawi attended college in Iowa and Virginia. He began his career in media working for FM and AM radio stations in Lebanon and worked for Net TV and Future TV in Beirut.He is married with 2 children. Part of the World Affairs Series: Outside Looking In - International Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy.

The New Age of Gene Therapy in Molecular Medicine - John F. Engelhardt
Thu, 23 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology Auditorium - John F. Engelhardt is the director of the Center for Gene Therapy and professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. His laboratory focuses on the development of gene therapies for inherited and environmentally induced diseases. He received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Iowa State University, and his doctorate in human genetics from Johns Hopkins University.

History of Science Series - Mountains That Vomit Fire: Volcanoes as Viewed in the l8th Century - Kenneth L. Taylor
Tue, 28 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Kenneth L. Taylor is the C.B. Hudson/Torchmark Presidential Professor in the History of Science Department at the University of Oklahoma, and has written extensively on the history of geology and natural history. He will be discussing 18th and 19th century debate over the nature of volcanoes and impact of that debate on Darwin's thought and work. He received his doctorate from Harvard.

The Impact of Philanthropy on Minorities, Healthcare and Education - Teresa Heinz Kerry
Wed, 29 Oct 2003, 1:30 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Teresa Heinz Kerry is chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. The foundations she oversees develop innovative strategies to protect the environment, improve education, enhance the lives of your children, broaden economic opportunity and promote the arts. Utne Magazine named her as one of 100 American visionaries and the NY Times described her as one of the nation's leading philanthropists. Teresa Heinz Kerry is wife of Senator John Kerry.

On Wrestling and Writing - Mick Foley
Wed, 29 Oct 2003, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium Admission Free - Mick Foley, one of the most popular personalities in the World Wrestling Federation, has written two memoirs that became New York Times #1 Bestsellers, Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks and Foley is Good and the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling. He has also written two New York Times best-selling children's books, Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos and Mick Foley's Halloween High Jinx. He just released his first novel, Tietam Brown.

John Vincent Atanasoff's 100th Birthday Celebration - He Made a World of Difference - Gordon Bell
Thu, 30 Oct 2003, 7:30 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free - Computer pioneer Gordon Bell is a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Smithsonian/MCI Information Technology Leadership Award for Innovation and is now a senior researcher at Microsoft. He will include a rare filmed presentation of John Vincent Atanasoff discussing his invention of the first digital computer. Comments will also be provided by John Gustafson, principal investigator, High Productivity Computing Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Alice Rowe Burks, author of "Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History;" Bulgarian Deputy Ambassador Emil Yalnazov; and Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy.

Live Videoconference - The History and Future of Scientific Computing - Stephen Wolfram
Fri, 31 Oct 2003, 7:30 PM – Benton Auditorium - Admission Free - Dr. Stephen Wolfram is President and CEO of Wolfram Research, author of A New Kind of Science, and creator of Mathematica. Introductory remarks by John Atanasoff II: Lessons Learned from the ABC.

Institute on World Affairs Series - The War in Iraq: A Forum
Sat, 01 Nov 2003, 10:00 AM – Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Building -- Parking available in Memorial Union parking ramp - Senator Harkin will be addressing the impact of the war in Iraq and the cost of occupation. Professor Telhami will be speaking about the politics of the Middle East, the political forces driving terrorism and the impact of U.S. foreign policy. Shibley Telhami is Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. While a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, he served as advisor to the United States delegation to the United Nations during the Iraq-Kuwait crisis, and was on the staff of Congressman Lee Hamilton. He is the author of a report on Persian Gulf security for the Council on Foreign Relations, and the co-drafter of another Council report on the Arab-Israeli peace process. He received his doctorate in political science from University of California at Berkeley. Among his publications are Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords and The Stakes: America and the Middle East, and numerous articles on international politics and Middle Eastern affairs. Campus map: http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/maps/central.asp Part of the World Affairs Series: Outside Looking In - International Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy.

Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science - Luis Ernesto Derbez
Mon, 03 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Luis Ernesto Derbez is the Foreign Minister of Mexico. He was Mexico's Economic Minister before assuming his current position. He worked for the World Bank for fourteen years, where he was responsible for the regional areas of Chile, Western and Central Africa, India, Nepal and Bhutan, among others. While with the World Bank he directed, structured, implemented and supervised Multilateral Economic Assistance and Structural Adjustment Programs in Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. He also worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank Mexico City Office and for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. He has worked on economic recovery programs for Honduras and Nicaragua, after Hurricane Mitch destroyed a substantial part of their territory and economy. He was a professor in the Graduate School of Business Management of ITESM in Monterrey, Nuevo León; a guest professor at Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies; director of the ITESM Econometric Studies Unit and Economics Department in Monterrey; and Academic Vice Rector of the University of the Americas in Cholula, Puebla. He received a doctorate in Economics from Iowa State University. Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science.

Democratic Presidential Candidate Forum for Young Voters
Tue, 04 Nov 2003, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The first presidential debate focused on youth issues will be broadcast live on CNN. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, will provide opening comments and lead the follow-up discussion. Audience members will be able to participate electronically via the internet. For more information on the forum: http://www.rockthevote.com/rtv_cnn.php http://www.rockthevote.com/pdf/RTV_CNNFORUM.pdf

Institute on World Affairs Series - Outside Looking In - Panel: Writing from the Outside
Tue, 04 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kim Young-Ha is from Seoul, South Korea and has written more than seven books as well as a significant number of essays and film reviews. He is also the host of a daily radio show on books and authors. He published his debut novel Nanen nareul pagiohal gweolliga itda (I Have a Right to Destroy Myself) in 1996, and in 1999 he won the Contemporary Literature Prize for his novel Dangsine Namu (Your Tree, 1999). Paddy Woodworth is the author of Dirty War Clean Hands which illuminates the complex struggle between Spain's democratic government and the Basque separatist group, the ETA. Paddy Woodworth has covered Spanish affairs for The Irish Times since 1978 and is now a freelance writer in Dublin. A distinguished journalist, he has contributed to numerous publications and media outlets including The Sunday Times, The BBC, and Spanish national television and radio.

Institute on World Affairs - Outside Looking In - American Foreign Policy after 9/11 - John C. Hulsman
Wed, 05 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John C. Hulsman is a Research Fellow with the Heritage Foundation Davis Institute for International Policy Studies where he examines European security and NATO affairs, the European Union, U.S.-European trade and economic relations, and the war on terror. He makes regular appearances on ABC, Fox News, CNN, CNNfn, MSNBC, PBS and the BBC. He was a fellow in European studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and taught world politics and U.S. foreign policy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His books include A Paradigm for the New World Order , The World Turned Rightside Up: A New Trading Agenda for the Age of Globalization," and he contributed a chapter to an upcoming volume critiquing the doctrine of humanitarian intervention. He earned a doctorate and master's degrees in modern history and international relations from the University of St. Andrews.

Iowa Caucus Workshop - How to Participate in the Iowa Caucuses
Thu, 06 Nov 2003, 3:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Secretary of State Chet Culver, providing an overview of the Iowa process, will lead a community-wide training session. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Gordon Fischer and Republican State Senator Mark Zieman will explain their parties' caucuses. The workshop will include practice exercises and a candidate information resource fair. Sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, ISU College Republicans, ISU Democrats, the Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB) and the League of Women Voters of Ames.

A Slide Presentation - The Hidden Destruction of the Appalachian Mountains - Dave Cooper
Mon, 10 Nov 2003, 7:00 PM – 236 Memorial Union - Dave Cooper works with Appalachian Voices of Boone, North Carolina. Before becoming an environmental activist, he graduated from Vanderbilt University and spent 20 years working in industry as a mechanical engineer. After seeing a mountaintop removal mine in operation, he became a full-time activist. Larry Gibson lives in the West Virginia coalfields, and has been interviewed about MTR by ABC Nightline, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Co., New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report and many other publications. Their website is www.appvoices.org.

Institute on World Affairs - U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East - Janine Zacharia
Mon, 10 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Janine Zacharia is the Washington bureau chief for The Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language daily newspaper, covering the Middle East from a US perspective. She also writes regularly on US Middle East policy for The New Republic magazine, and is a diplomatic analyst for MSNBC. She spent the month of March on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea as one of 600 reporters embedded with the US military. Prior to taking up her posting in Washington, Janine worked for five years in Israel as a journalist, first for the bi-weekly magazine, The Jerusalem Report, and then for the Reuters news agency.

Institute on World Affairs - The War in Iraq: A View from Europe - Henning Lohse
Tue, 11 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Henning Lohse is correspondent and head of the Paris bureau for a major German newspaper and magazine consortium Axel Springer. He previously worked as a journalist in Hungary and Austria, and for the US non-profit organization Central American Solidarity Association.

Sustainability and Changing the Way We Do Business - Sissel Waage
Wed, 12 Nov 2003, 3:10 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - A Conversation with Sissel Waage, Ph.D., Director of the Sustainability Research Group for The Natural Step, San Francisco, California. The Natural Step provides a visionary blueprint for a sustainable world. Their upstream approach addresses problems at the source and turn them into opportunities for innovation. As an international advisory and research organization, the organization works with some of the largest resource users on the planet to create solutions, models and tools designed to accelerate global sustainability.

Latino/a Youth in the US Justice System: Fair and Equitable? - Francisco A. Villarruel
Wed, 12 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Francisco A. Villarruel is a University Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University, a member of the Leadership Team and Research Associate of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, a Professor of Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University, and a faculty affiliate of Julian Samora Research Institute, the only Hispanic research institute at a major Midwestern university that is committed to the generation, transmission, and application of knowledge to serve the needs of Latino communities in the Midwest. He is the co-editor of Making Invisible Latino Youth Visible: A Critical Approach to Latino Diversity and Community Youth Development: Programs, Practices and Policies.He is also the chair of the National Hispanic Education Alliance.He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Family and Child Studies.

Presidential University Lecture - From a Sow's Ear to a Silk Purse: The Promise of Genomics - Max Rothschild
Thu, 13 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Presidential University Lecture Series highlights faculty excellence in learning, discovery, and engagement. ISU faculty present lectures from their own areas of expertise on topics of interest to the general public, designed to stimulate high-quality, intellectual discussion among faculty, staff, students, and community members. Max Rothschild is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture. He is an internationally recognized leader in animal genetics whose research has been directed towards identifying genes controlling traits of economic importance in the pig. He serves as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Pig Genome Mapping Coordinator and was the 2002 Iowa Inventor of the Year. He has also received two R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine, which honor the nation's top technological product innovations. He has presented invited papers in over 30 countries and has more than 195 referred publications, 450 other publications and 5 patents. He is co-director of the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, a new presidential initiative at Iowa State. Prior to the lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display in the South Ballroom from 7-8 p.m.

Presidential Caucus Series - Generation Dean
Fri, 14 Nov 2003, 5:30 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Howard Dean was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2002. He and his wife are physicians and previously shared a medical practice. He graduated from Yale University and recieved his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He also served in the Vermont House and was lieutenant governor. This series is designed to provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with an opportunityto question all presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses on January 19.

Reading from the Desert Pilgrim: On Route to Mysticism and Miracles - Mary Swander
Mon, 17 Nov 2003, 7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Mary Swander, whose eight books include Out of This World: A Journey of Healing, is a widely published poet and essayist, a Whiting Award winner, a Barnes and Noble Disovery selection, and a regular commentator on National Public Radio in Iowa and the Southwest. Mary Swander is a Distinguished Professor of English at Iowa State University.

Global Environmental Justice, Native Peoples and Women - Winona Laduke
Mon, 17 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Winona Laduke, 1982 graduate of Harvard, works and lives on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and works on restoring the local land base and culture. LaDuke also serves as the board co-chair for the Indigenous Women's Network and works in a national capacity as Program Director for Honor the Earth Fund, providing vision and leadership for the organization's Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. In 1994, she was named by Time Magazine as one of America's 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age, and was vice presidential candidate on the Green Party ticket in 2000 with Ralph Nader. She is author of several books including Last Standing Woman (1997) and All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999). Institute on World Affairs Series.

2003-2004 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair - Hunting Assumptions: Exploring the Core of Critical Thinking - Stephen Brookfield
Tue, 18 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Stephen Brookfield, Distnguished Professor of Education at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, is the College of Family and Consumer Sciences 2003-2004 as Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair. Dr. Brookfield is an internationally recognized expert in critical thinking, adult and transformational education. His nine books include Developing Critical Thinkers; Self-Directed Learning: from Theory to Practice; The Skillful Teacher; and Learning Democracy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Leicester in Adult Education.

A View from Bethlehem: Is Peace Possible? - Sandra Olewine
Wed, 19 Nov 2003, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sandra Olewine works with Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem and the International Center, an outreach ministry of that church. She has served through the General Board of Global Ministries as the United Methodists' Liaison to Jerusalem since December 1996, communicating concerns of the churches of Jerusalem and Palestine/Israel to the UMC worldwide. Through the UMC Visits Program and the joint Justice Education Program, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services and the Presbyterian Church, she has accompanied hundreds of pilgrims and others on tours and engaged peoples of the three religions. She has written extensively on the current situation and published numerous articles in magazines and newspapers.

Performance: An Evening of Spoken Word - Henry Rollins
Wed, 19 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Admission Free - Henry Rollins is a post-punk renaissance man. In addition to making albums with the Rollins Band, he writes books and poetry, performs spoken-word tours, and appears in movies and on television. He has always kept his artistic integrity, becoming a kind of father figure for many alternative bands on the strength of albums like 1992's The End of Silence, 1994's Weight and1997's Come In and Burn. He won a Grammy Award for his spoken word performance. Free Admission

Issues in Agriculture - The Importance of Agriculture to Iowa's Economy - Arne Hallam
Thu, 20 Nov 2003, 7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Arne Hallam is chair of the Department of Economics at Iowa State University.

History of Science Series - Why Wilbur and Orville? The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane - Tom Crouch
Thu, 20 Nov 2003, 8:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Aud., Howe Hall - Tom Crouch is Senior Curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum. He has published extensively on the Wright Brothers and early flight andhis most recent book is Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Wright Brothers to the Space Age. A Smithsonian employee since 1974, he has served both the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of American History in a variety of curatorial and administrative posts. Prior to coming to the Smithsonian he was employed by the Ohio Historical Society and director of education (1969-1973) and as Director, Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Commission. (1973-1974).

Ending the Ashcroft Era - Senator John Kerry
Mon, 01 Dec 2003, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Kerry has served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 1984. A graduate of Yale University, he received a Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, and three awards of the Purple Heart for his combat service in Viet Nam. He was also elected Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor and served as a Middlesex County prosecutor. Presidential Caucus SeriesThis series is designed to provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with an opportunity to question all presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses on January 19.

Securing Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons - Eugene E. Habiger
Tue, 02 Dec 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - General Eugene E. Habiger has over 35 years of experience in national security and nuclear operations. He was the U.S. Department of Energy's Director of Security and Emergency Operations where he oversaw all security functions, including safeguards and security policy, cyber-security, critical infrastructure protection, foreign visits and assignments and emergency operations functions. General Habiger also served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, and was responsible for all U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy strategic nuclear forces. During his tenure, he established an unprecedented military-to-military relationship with his Russian counterpart. Martin Schram, a Washington journalist, editor and author, served as managing editor of "Avoiding Armageddon," an eight-hour PBS television documentary series produced under the auspices of Ted Turner Documentaries. He is the author of five books including Avoiding Armageddon, has a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and appears frequently as a commentator on various television networks.General

The War in Iraq: An Iowa Perspective - Steve King
Wed, 03 Dec 2003, 4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steve King was elected to Iowa's new 5th Congressional District in 2002 and serves on the House committees on Agriculture, the Judiciary, and Small Business. He just returned from a tour of Iraq.

Presidential Caucus Series - Campaign 2004 - John Edwards
Wed, 03 Dec 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Edwards represents North Carolina in the United States Senate where he serves as a member of four committees: Intelligence; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Judiciary; and Small Business. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University and earned a law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This series is designed to provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with an opportunity to question all presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses on January 19.

Sigma Xi Lecture - Human Computer Interaction - James Bernard
Thu, 04 Dec 2003, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - James Bernard is director of Virtual Reality Applications Center and Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University. Dr. Bernard received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering mechanics from the University of Michigan.

Video Lies and False Memory: How Visual Media Shapes Our Brains - Ann Marie Barry
Thu, 04 Dec 2003, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ann Marie Barry is a Boston College professor of communications and author of Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication; The Advertising Portfolio, and many articles and creative works on the neurology of image, graphic design, and media studies. She is at work on a new book How Images Mean.

On the Environment - Carole King
Mon, 12 Jan 2004, 11:30 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Carole King is a singer and songwriter who has devoted much of her time to wilderness issues in the northern Rockies. Following her 1961 hit "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" by the Shirelles, she wrote what comprises one of the most remarkable lists of hits in pop history, including "The Loco-Motion," "Take Good Care Of My Baby," "One Fine Day," "Go Away Little Girl," "Up On The Roof," "I Can't Stay Mad At You," "I'm Into Something Good," "Pleasant Valley Sunday," "Just Once In My Life," "Hey, Girl," "Chains," and "Sharing You," among, many, many others. Her album Tapestry included "It's Too Late," "I Feel The Earth Move," "So Far Away," "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" - co-written with Jerry Wexler.

A Birthday Party and Musical Celebration
Thu, 15 Jan 2004, 12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A university-wide celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speakers and performers to be announced. Birthday cake donated by Campus Dining Services.

Brown vs. the Board of Education 50th Anniversary Celebration - White Racism in Iowa Education: Opening Doors, Opening Minds - Hal Chase
Wed, 21 Jan 2004, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Hal Chase is professor of African American Studies at Des Moines Area Community College and project coordinator for the book Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000. Alfredo Parrish is author of a chapter on Iowa attorneys in that book and managing partner with the law firm of Parrish, Kruidenier, Moss, Dunn, Boles, Gribble and Cook in Des Moines,

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Celebration - What Manner of Man: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Lerone Bennett Jr.
Thu, 22 Jan 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lerone Bennett Jr., senior editor of Ebony magazine, has pioneered in the writing of popular black history. His books include What Manner of Man : A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Confrontation: Black and White Black Power U.S.A.; The Human Side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877; Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream; Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; and The Shaping of Black America. His numerous awards include receiving the Capital Press Club's Book of the Year Award and being named the United Negro College Fund's Humanitarian of the Year.

Boethics Program Series - Greenpeace vs. Monsanto on Genetically Modified Food: Whom to Believe? - Gregory E. Pence
Mon, 26 Jan 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gregory E. Pence is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Medicine and Humanities University of Alabama at Birmingham. He teaches in the Philosophy Department, and Medical Ethics to first-year students in the School of Medicine. His books include Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? (named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003), The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century, Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine, Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? and, with G. Lynn Stevens, Seven Dilemmas in World Religions. He edited Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical Readings and Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans, and Brave New Bioethics.He graduated cum laude in 1970 (philosophy) from William and Mary, he earned a doctorate in 1974 from New York University.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - Writing the Black South - John Roberts
Mon, 26 Jan 2004, 8:00 PM – Farwell T. Brown Auditorium, Ames Public Library - John Roberts is a professor of English and associate dean of the College of Humanities at Ohio State University, and former deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Roberts has published widely in the fields of literature, folklore, and African American studies. In addition to numerous articles and book reviews, he is author of From Hucklebuck to Hip Hop: Social Dance in the African American Community in Philadelphia and From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. Robert's lecture is part of the Arts and Humanities in the Environment series and will address the importance of regional identity in the literature and folklore of the Black American South, specifically in the work of Ernest Gaines.

Issues in Agriculture - Career Opportunities in Agriculture - Mike Gaul
Thu, 29 Jan 2004, 7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Mike Gaul is director of Agriculture Career Services in the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University.

Institute on World Affairs - Outside Looking In - Israel's Quest for Peace - Fighting Against Terror - Moshe Ram
Thu, 29 Jan 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Consul General Moshe Ram is with the Israel Consulate in Chicago. A member of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1975, he served as the Foreign Ministry's Director of the Economic Division for Asian, Pacific and Latin American Affairs. He also served as Consul General of Israel in Shanghai; Deputy Consul General to the Southwestern United States in Los Angeles; First Secretary at the Embassy of Israel in Manila, Philippines; and Second Secretary at the Embassy of Israel in Katmandu, Nepal. He was born in Haifa, Israel and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Institute on National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - An NRA Perspective - Kayne Robinson
Mon, 02 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kayne Robinson is president of the National Rifle Association, a position previously held by Charlton Heston. He retired from his position as assistant chief of police and chief of dectives with the Des Moines Police Department. He served as chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa during the 2000 presidential race.

Spring 2004 Presidential University Lecture - Is Cancer Preventable? - Diane F. Birt
Tue, 03 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Diane F. Birt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Director of the Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements nationally recognized for her research in nutrition and cancer prevention. She has over 100 publications and was director of the Plant Sciences Institute's Center for Designing Foods. She has been awarded major federal grants for diet and cancer prevention research, in addition to her work with botanical dietary supplements.The Presidential University Lecture Series highlights faculty excellence in learning, discovery, and engagement. Iowa State faculty members are chosen by the university president to present lectures from their areas of expertise on topics of interest to students, faculty, staff and the general public. 7-8 p.m. Reception and student poster display in the Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Institute on the National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - The Patriot Act in Iowa
Wed, 04 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - U.S. Attorney for the Northern District Charles Larson, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Stephen O'Meara will join Iowa Civil Liberties Executive Director Ben Stone for a discussion of the impact this anti-terrorism legislation in Iowa. Barbara Mack, Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will moderate.

A Debate: The Resurrection of Jesus: Fact or Fiction? - William Craig
Thu, 05 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission free - William Craig is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in Atlanta and author of several books including Reason Faith; No Easy Answers; Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology; The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe; and Knowing the Truth about the Resurrection. Hector Avalos is associate professor of religious studies and director of the U.S. Lantino/a Studies Program at ISU, and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, a part of the Council for Secular Humanism based in Amherst, New York.

NOTE TIME CHANGE!!! - War and the Economy - Felice Yeskel
Fri, 06 Feb 2004, 5:45 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Felice Yeskel is a founder and spent 7 years as the Co-Director of the Boston-based, national, non-profit, United for a Fair Economy. She is also on the faculty of the Social Justice Education Program, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she founded and directs The Stonewall Center: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Resource Center. She is also the co-director of DiversityWorks, Inc., an organization of social justice educators that provides training and consulting on issues of diversity and multiculturalism. She has led hundreds of workshops across the country about economic inequality and about healing divisions among Americans of different class backgrounds, races, genders, and sexual orientations.(Felice Yeskel is the keynote speaker for the 4th Annual Multicultural Leadership Summit which will be held on Saturday, February 7, and is free to all ISU students. Registration for the Summit is required: http://www.sac.iastate.edu/PowerofOne/Msummit/.)

Motherhood in a Changing World Conference - Mothering Extended: Who's Really Raising the Children Today? - Lynet Uttal
Sat, 07 Feb 2004, 9:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Lynet Uttal teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This presentation is free and open to the public as are other presentations throughout the day. To register for free childcare and lunch, and additional information check: http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/about/conference.html.

Motherhood in a Changing World Conference - What Can Scholars of Motherhood Learn from Gay Fathers? - Ellen Lewin
Sat, 07 Feb 2004, 9:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Ellen Lewin teaches at the University of Iowa. This presentation is free and open to the public as are other presentations throughout the day. To register for free childcare and lunch, and additional information check: http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/about/conference.html.

College of Design 25th Anniversary Lecture - The Flashlight and the Owl - Brenda Laurel
Mon, 09 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Brenda Laurel is chair of the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has worked in the area of human-computer interaction since 1976, for companies including Atari, Activision, Epyx, Apple, and Interval Research, where she led a three-year research program to explore gender and technology. She was the co-founder of Purple Moon, a transmedia company devoted to girls, based on her research at Interval. She also works as a consultant, designer, speaker and researcher, focusing on the cultural aspects of technology. Laurel is the editor of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, and author of Computers as Theatre, and Utopian Entrepreneur. She holds an MFA and doctorate in theatre from the Ohio State University. She serves on the boards of Cheskin, the Comparative Media Studies Program at M.I.T., the Digital Storytelling Association and the Communication Research Institute of Australia.

Is it Sharing or Stealing? File-sharing and Copyright Issues on your Campus
Tue, 10 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Short presentations by each panel member will be followed by an open question & answer session. Barbara Mack is an associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. She has served as executive assistant to former ISU President Martin Jischke and has worked as a reporter and Attorney for the Des Moines Register. Her research interests include media law and ethics. Mike Bowman is assistant director of customer services for Academic Information Technologies and serves as Iowa State University's designated Digital Millennium Copyright Act Agent. Bethany Schuttinga is Assistant Dean of Students under Judicial Affairs in the Dean of Students Office. Her work includes investigating academic and non-academic complaints of student misconduct and interpreting general university regulations and guidelines.

Sigma Xi Lecture - Medical Pluralism and Patterns of Medical Choice in a Southern Mexican City: Some Perspectives and Observations
Wed, 11 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Michael Whiteford is Professor of Anthropology and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes, and he has worked in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. His research results have been published in journals such as Medical Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, and Social Science and Medicine. He is co-author (with John Friedl) of an introductory anthropology textbook entitled The Human Portrait. With his brother, he edited Crossing currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America. For the past eight years, Dr. Whiteford has been editor of the quarterly Newsletter published by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Black History Month - Goldtrap Lecture - The Poet as Prophet and Oracle - Ishmael Reed
Sun, 15 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ishmael Reed is the author of more than twenty books--novels, essays, plays, and poetry--that have been translated into seven languages. He has also edited two major anthologies including From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and his novels Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of Louisiana Red were nominated for the National Book Award, He taught at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth, and for 20 years has been on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley.

The Social Consequences of Affirmative Action - Elijah Anderson
Mon, 16 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Elijah Anderson is the author of Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community and The Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, among many publications. He is the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and associat director of the Center for Urban Ethnography.

Phi Beta Kappa - Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation - Richard J. Bernstein
Mon, 16 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard J. Bernstein is the author of Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation; Freud and the Legacy of Moses; Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question; The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity; Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode; Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis; The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory; and Praxis and Action. He is the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and dean of the Graduate Faculty in the New School for Social Research.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - Sense of Place in the Contemporary Crime Thriller - James Roberto Curtis
Thu, 19 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - James Roberto Curtis is an associate professor of geography at California State University, Long Beach. He is the coauthor of The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality and The Cuban American Experience: Culture, Images, and Perspectives. He is also the author of the award-winning novel Shang�. Curtis bridges the gap between academic scholarship and creative writing as they relate to issues of identity and environment. He is interested in the character of urban places, especially Third World cities. Curtis's talk will draw on his scholarly pursuits in the areas of geography, creative writing, and Latino studies but will focus on the sense of place in popular literature: crime thrillers.

College of Design 25th Anniversary Lecture - How We Get Through Airport Security: Cities, Product Design, and Where Stuff Comes From - Harvey Molotch
Thu, 19 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Harvey Molotch is a professor of sociology and metropolitan studies at New York University, where he conducts research on issues of city growth and urban security as well as on product design and development. He is the author of Where Stuff Comes From, four other books, and several hundred articles, chapters and reviews. He has been a frequent participant on various public and commercial radio and television programs, including the BBC's "Thinking Aloud." Before joining the faculty at NYU, Molotch was a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, chair of sociology and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a visiting professor at Northwestern University, University of Essex, Lund University, and SUNY Stony Brook.

Issues in Agriculture - Renewing the Countryside
Thu, 19 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Stories and photos from the recently published book Renewing the Countryside-Iowa will be presented by Jerry DeWitt, photographer and ISU Extension entomologist, and other book participants. Renewing the Countryside-Iowa highlights the activities of Iowans making a living and creating a quality of life that is good not only economically but good for the local community and environment. Among the participants will be local producers Larry Cleverley and the "Goat rnoms" of Northern Prairie Chevre; Frederick Kirschenmann, Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; and writer/editor Shellie Orngard.

Bioethics Program - Defining Biodiversity: Do We Know What We Are Trying To Save? - Bryan Norton
Fri, 20 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - Bryan Norton is professor of Philosophy at Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Why Preserve Natural Variety among other books, and is well known for his work on philosophy of ecology and environmental law.

Brazilian-Portuguese Association - Samba Workshop - Armando Duarte
Fri, 20 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Room 136, Union Drive Community Center - Armando Duarte, Associate Professor of Dance, University of Iowa, is artistic director of Duarte Dance Works. A dancer, teacher and choreographer Armando Duarte, a native Brazilian, holds a BS degree in Physical Education from University of São Paulo and an MFA degree in Choreography and Performance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He has toured the world extensively as a founding member of the internationally known Cisne Negro (Black Swan) Dance Company from São Paulo. The Brazilian Carnival to be held on Saturday, February 28, 2004. This will give participants a chance to learn about the history of carnival and practice dance steps with an expert in the field.

Black History Month Comedy Celebration - Mark Reedy
Fri, 20 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Admission Free - Mark Reedy has performed on MTV, Showtime, and HBO, and opened for Marsha Warfield, Redd Foxx, at Patty Labelle. He is a multi-faceted comic who finds the absurd in the most obvious places.

The Right to Religious Liberty - Congressman Steve King
Mon, 23 Feb 2004, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steve King was elected to Iowa's Fifth Congressional District in 2002. He describes himself as a social conservative, and serves on the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Constitution and Immigration Subcommittees in addition to the Agriculture and Small Business Committees. As State Senator he worked to pass legislation on the English as the official language bill, elimination of the inheritance tax, and the God and Country bill. Institute on Naitonal Affairs Series - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?

Roe vs. Wade: An Intergenerational Conversation - Jill June
Tue, 24 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jill June is president of Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. She was named Ms. Magazine Women of the Year 2002 for refusing to violate the confidentiality of her clients and successfully fighting an attempt by police in Storm Lake, Iowa, to subpoena Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa's patient records as part of the investigation of the death of a newborn. Krista Jacob is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminists on Sexuality, and edited Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion. She has a long history of involvement in women's issues, from domestic violence and sexual assault to reproductive freedom.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Cuba - Piero Gleijeses
Wed, 25 Feb 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Study at John Hopkins University. He is the author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 ; Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States; Politics and Culture in Guatemala; Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America; The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention. He has a doctorate in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Design College 25th Anniversary Series - Not by Design - Lucy Lippard
Mon, 01 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, Design College - Activist Lucy Lippard is a contributing editor to Art in America, a former art critic for The Village Voice and Z Magazine, and the author of 20 books, including her most recent, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place.

Institute on National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - Homeland Security and the Rights of International Students
Mon, 01 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dennis Peterson, director of International Education Services; Michael Levine, an attorney with Student Legal Services will discuss the impact of Homeland Security measures on the rights of international students at Iowa State University. Robert Lowry, ISU Political Science Department, will moderate.

Transgenic Crops and Environmental Protection - Paul Thompson
Mon, 01 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Paul Thompson is Professor in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics; The Ethics of Aid and Trade; Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, and co-editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. He has served on many national and international committees on agricultural biotechnology and contributed to the National Research Council report The Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants. He has a doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Porn: its popularity and draw... - Fred Stoeker
Tue, 02 Mar 2004, 7:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Fred Stoeker is an accomplished businessman, author and speaker who will share his 20 year struggle with pornography. After realizing pornography distorted his view of women and himself and damaged his own marriage, he decided to act. He is passionate about sharing the negative impact of pornography and solutions for the problem.

Women's History Month - The Shoulders We Stand On: Women as Agents of Change - Louise Bernikow
Tue, 02 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Louise Bernikow is an activist, author, editor and feminist scholar who will discuss the history of women's activism in this country, with anecdotes and provocative questions about race, sexual preference, and ethnicity. She was a Fulbright scholar and a pioneer of women's studies. She is the author of six books, including Among Women, The World Split Open and The American Women's Almanac: An Inspiring and Irreverent Women's History which was published in association with the National Women's History Project.

John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture - Agricultural Policy for the Twenty-First Century and the Legacy of the Wallaces - Daryll E. Ray
Wed, 03 Mar 2004, 2:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Daryll E. Ray is the Director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Tennessee.

Confessions of the Guerilla Girls
Wed, 03 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous women activists fighting for gender and racial equality. Their battle is fought mainly in New York City, but it has begun to spread to other artist venues across the United States. In their "real" lives, the Guerrilla Girls are artists, curators, art historians; as individuals, they remain silent so that they are not alienated from the art community. But as a group, they put on their gorilla masks to hide their faces and assume the names of obscure dead female artists.

Issues in Agriculture - Organic Foods - Kathleen Delate
Thu, 04 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Kathleen Delate is an organic crops specialist with a joint faculty appointment in the Departments of Horticulture and Agronomy.

COMEDY! - Margaret Cho
Thu, 04 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center-Admission Free and Open only to ISU Students, Faculty & Staff & Thei - The outrageous and hilarious Margaret Cho gives her own take on the contemporary social and political scene, covering everything from free speech to same sex marriages. She is best known for her ground-breaking and controversial ABC sitcom, All-American Girl, and her one-woman shows, I'm The One That I Want and the Notorious C.H.O. Material may not be suitable for children under 17. This performance is a highlight of the Institute on National Affairs series "Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?"

Science and Society Lecture - Science Policy: Why Should You Care? - Mary Good
Thu, 04 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - What scientists and engineers do, affects you. Mary Good is past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following Dr. Stephen Jay Gould. During the terms of Presidents Carter and Reagan Dr. Good served on the National Science Board and chaired it from 1988-1991. She was the Undersecretary for Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce and Technology during President Clinton's first term. She spent 25 years teaching and researching at Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans, before becoming a guiding force in research and development for Allied Signal. She is currently the dean of the CyberCollege at University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and serves as the managing partner of Venture Capital Investors, LLC in Little Rock.

Celebrating Brown vs. the Board of Education - Opening Doors, Opening Minds - Terrence Roberts
Fri, 05 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The Supreme Court's May 17, 1954, ruling on Brown vs. the Board of Education ended racial segregation in public schools and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. The court unanimously ruled that an 1896 "separate but equal" clause was unconstitutional, because it violated the 14th Amendment by separating students based on the color of their skin Terrence Roberts was one of nine students blocked from entering Little Rock's Central High School in September 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus joined local whites in resisting integration by dispatching the National Guard. President Dwight Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to protect the students. Following the closing of Little Rock's schools during the 1958-59 school year, Dr. Roberts completed his senior year at Los Angeles High School in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Roberts graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from California State University, Los Angeles. He received his Master's degree in social welfare from UCLA and his Ph.D. in psychology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is currently chair of the master's in psychology program at Antioch University in Los Angeles and has a private psychology practice in Pasadena, CA. He is also CEO of the management consulting firm, Terrence J. Roberts & Associates.

The Passion of the Christ - A Forum
Sun, 07 Mar 2004, 4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Is theThe Passion of the Christ too violent? Anti-Semitic? Biblically inaccurate? Rabbi David Kaufman of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Religious Studies Professor and Supple Chair of Catholic Studies David Hunter, and Pastor of College Ministries Zeke Pipher at the Ames Evangelical Free Church will discuss the controversary surrounding Mel Gibson's movie. Steve Sullivan, movie reviewer for the Ames Tribune, will moderate the discussion.

Personal Stories about Abortion
Mon, 08 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Georgette Forney, executive director of NOEL, the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life, joins representatives from the National Silent No More Awareness Campaign to tell their personal stories. The Campaign is an effort to make the public aware of the impact of abortion.

Institute on National Affairs - Name the Accuser and the Accused: Reconsidering the Coverage of Rape - Geneva Overholser
Mon, 08 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Geneva Overholser served on the editorial page at the Des Moines Register, on the editorial board of The New York Times, as editor of Des Moines Register, ombudsman at the Washington Post and a syndicated columnist with Washington Post Writers Group. The Register won the Pulitzer gold medal for public service for "It Couldn't Happen to Me," the story of one woman's experience with rape, during her tenure. She has been a regular media commentator, CJR columnist, former congressional fellow, Nieman fellow, chair of Pulitzer Prize Board and an officer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She is currently a trustee of Stanley Foundation, Knight fellowships at Stanford, National Press Foundation and the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship. Overholser joined the Missouri School of Journalism in September 2000.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - Photography: Vision, Reflection & Connection - Mary Stieglitz
Tue, 09 Mar 2004, 7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - 2003-2004 Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar Mary Stieglitz works in wide-format digital imagery on textiles and alternative surfaces and in hybrid art forms, especially those synthesizing current with traditional technologies. She is a professor of Art and Design at Iowa State University, with an undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.

Clarice Lispector: The Stylistics of Love - Alexis Levitin
Wed, 10 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Alexis Levitin has translated two of Clarice Lispector's books, A Via Crucis do Corpo and Onde Estivestes de Noite which appeared under the title Soulstorm. Alexis Levitin has published 20 books of translations and his work has appeared in over 30 anthologies. in close to 200 literary magazines. This year he won a second NEA Translation Fellowship to work on the poems of two contemporary Portuguese poets, Herberto Helder and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. His most recent book is Forbidden Words: The Selected Poetry of Eugenio de Andrade. He has also received grants, awards, and prizes from the New York State Council on the Arts, Columbia University Translation Center, Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, Wheatland Foundation and, in Portugal, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Cam�es Institute, and the Book Institute. He was also awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency.

Institute on World Affairs - What Happened on the Road to Peace? - Michael Tarazi
Wed, 10 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Michael Tarazi is a legal and communications advisor with the Negotiations Support Unit of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, providing legal and communications advice and assistance to the Palestinian team in peace negotiations with Israel. Prior to taking his current position, he was the European General Counsel at Euronet Services Inc. based in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, he specialized as a securities attorney and worked in New York, Helsinki and Istanbul for the law firm of White & Case, and in Paris for the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He received undergraduate and law degreesz from Harvard University, and is a member of the New York State Bar.

A Concert: Acoustic Music from Latin America - Calle Sur
Thu, 11 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Calle Sur brings to life the rich diversity of Latin American music. Hailing from the grand savannas of Colombia and the sultry beaches of Panama, Calle Sur performs a large variety of Latin American and Caribbean rhythms. Karen Stein and Edgar East bring an extensive background in musicology to their presentations. Calle Sur performs nationally and internationally, has been featured on a variety of TV shows, and has provided the film score for three documentaries. For more information, please check out the link to their website: http://showcase.netins.net/web/costarica/calle/

Entomology Graduate Student Orgranization - Maggots on Corpses: Insect Evidence to Estimate Time Since Death - Robert Hall
Mon, 22 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Robert Hall is routinely consulted by law enforcement, judicial agencies and defense counsel regarding entomological evidence in criminal and civil cases. He is Associate Vice Provost for Research and professor of entomology at the University of Missouri, and a Medical Entomologist and Colonel in the Reserve U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. He has a doctorate in medical and veterinary entomology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a law degree from University of Missouri School of Law.

The Body Image Project: Beauty as a Relative Concept - Larry Kirkwood
Tue, 23 Mar 2004, 12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Also, Wednesday March 24, 7 p.m., Pioneer Room. Artist Larry Kirkwood of Kansas City will present the history of "The Body Image Project." Approximately 20 casts of male and female figures created by the artist will be on display. He will discuss challenges involved in the use of the human form as subject matter and misconceptions arising from the use of the term "visual beauty" in relation to the body.

History of Science - 'Why She Becomes Insane So Often:' Women and Health in Rural Iowa, 1900-1940. - Jennifer L. Gunn
Tue, 23 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Jennifer L. Gunn is Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota History of Medicine Program. Her publications include "A Few Good Men: The Rockefellers and Population Studies," in Theresa Richardson and Donald Fisher, eds. The Development of the Social Sciences in the US and Canada: The Role of Philanthropy,and "Factory Work for Doctors," in Transactions and Studies of the Collge of Physicians of Philadelphia, and she is at work on a book on the history of rural medical practice in twentieth-century America. She received her masters and doctorate in History and the Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

The US and the UN: Can this Marriage be Saved? - Gillian Martin Sorensen
Wed, 24 Mar 2004, 5:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Gillian Martin Sorensen, Senior Adviser at the United Nations Foundation, is a national advocate on matters related to the United Nations and the United States-United Nations relationship. She previously served as Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations on appointment by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations, and was responsible for outreach to civil society including non-governmental organizations around the world.

Design College 25th Anniversary Series - Weaving a Circle of Oneness: The Art of Building Community - Nobuko Miyamoto
Wed, 24 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design Building - Nobuko Miyamoto is a winner of a 2003 Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award. She is artistic director of Great Leap, an organization she founded in Los Angeles in 1978 to support the creation of original productions of theater, music and dance. In this interactive lecture/demonstration, she will share her songs, stories and video imagery.

Should a Rational Person Believe the Claims of Christianity? - Jason Reed
Wed, 24 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Jason Reed is a philosophy instructor at the St. Louis University and St. Louis Christian College. He received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Iowa State University, a masters from Southern Evangelical Seminary, and is completing the doctoral program in philosophy at St. Louis University.

From the Tetons to Tibet: Fifteen Years of Snowboard Descents - Stephen Koch
Thu, 25 Mar 2004, 7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Stephen Koch is one of the most accomplished snowboard mountaineers in the world. What sets him apart from many snowboarders and skiers is his ability to safely and swiftly climb the terrain he then descends. Seeking out aesthetic and challenging lines regardless of their altitude, Stephen was the first to snowboard Wyoming's Grand Teton, Kilimanjaro in East Africa, Puncak Jaya in New Guinea and Vinson Massif in Antarctica. When Stephen began climbing in Jackson, Wyoming's Teton Range in 1987, he used climbing as a means to access snowboard descents. Soon he was climbing for the love of climbing alone. His solo ascents of the Breach Wall on Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya's Diamond Couloir and the North Face of the Matterhorn in winter are recognized as extraordinary achievements.

Israel's Quest for Peace; Past, Present and Future - A Series - Israel in Modern History: An Escape from Polemics - Howard Sachar
Thu, 25 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Ames City Auditorium - Howard Sachar is Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, and a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs for the United States Foreign Service Institute. He is the author of 15 books including : The Course of Modern Jewish History, From the Ends of the Earth, The Emergence of the Middle East, Europe Leaves the Middle East, A History of Israel, The Man on the Camel, Egypt and Israel, A History of Israel since the Yom Kippur War, A History of the Jews in America, and Europe and Dreamland: Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War. He is also the editor-in-chief of the 39-volume The Rise of Israel: A Documentary History. Steffen Schmidt, professor of Political Science, will moderate. This speaker is the first in a series planned by the Ames Coalition for Peace.

Goddesses Past and Present - Nikki Bado- Fralick
Fri, 26 Mar 2004, 12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Nikki Bado-Fralick is an assistant professor in Philosophy & Religious Studies; she will discuss the role of the goddess in historical, religious, and contemporary contexts. This lecture is in conjuction with an art exibit by Larry Kirkwood titled, "The Body Image Project: Beauty as a Relative Concept." The artist's work will also be displayed in the Pioneer room.

Bisexuality and Science Fiction: The Politics of Identity - Cecilia Tan
Fri, 26 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Campanile, Memorial Union - Cecilia Tan is a leading author of erotic science fiction whose books include: Black Feathers; The Velderet; and Telepaths Don't Need Safewords. Her stories, essays, and articles have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies including Best America Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Playboy Online, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, On A Bed of Rice, To Be Continued, Queer View Mirror, Dark Angels, Penthouse, Ms. magazine, and Publishers Weekly. She is the co-owner Circlet Press, and also has a budding baseball writing career, writing for Yankees.com, Yankees Magazine, and a book project for Wiley & Sons, Fifty Greatest Yankee Games due out in 2005.

Institute on World Affairs - Outside Looking In - European Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: Ever Present Though Always Denied - Andrei Markovits
Sun, 28 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. A specialist on the politics of Western and Central Europe -- Germany and Austria in particular -- Markovits has published a dozen books and edited volumes; well over 100 scholarly articles; 50 review essays; and many articles and interviews in the American and European press. His books include: German Politics and Society; From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland: German Politics after Reunification; The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe; The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond; and The Politics of Scandal: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies.

The Sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art and Theology - Shalom Sabar
Mon, 29 Mar 2004, 4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Shalom Sabar is a professor of Art History and Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves as the editor of Rimonim, the only periodical in Hebrew on Jewish art (published by Israel's Ministry of Education); co-editor of the annual Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore; co-editor of a series of 20 volumes on the Jews in the lands of Islam and the author of two books in the series - on the life cycle and on the year cycle of these communities. Jewish, Christian and Muslim ideas about art are examined.

Bioethics Program - The Use of Animals in Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, and Recommendations - Jonathan Balcomb
Mon, 29 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Jonathan Balcomb is the Associate Director for Education in the Animal Research section of the Humane Society of the US and author of many well known and widely referenced works on the humane use of animals in research.

A Debate - SAME SEX MARRIAGE
Mon, 29 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Camilla Taylor is a Staff Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest legal organization dedicated to advancing the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered and people with HIV or AIDS. She is also the point person for Lambda Legal's Marriage Project. An opposing view will be provided by Mike Hartwig, executive director of Marriage Matters at the Iowa Family Policy Center, an organization working "to strengthen Iowa's families by presenting a traditional foundation of principles," and amend the Iowa Constitution and support federal efforts to define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. Barbara Mack, Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will moderate.

A Festival: Declare Yourself
Tue, 30 Mar 2004, 12:00 PM – -7 pm, Great Hall, Memorial Union - Declaration of Independence Display 12 noon-7 p.m., Great Hall, Memorial Union A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. This will include an original 10-minute comedic film starring actors Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. Giveaways, touch screen-voter booths and other voter registration activities will be housed in two, adjacent tents. Voting is a serious subject, but the Declare Yourself campaign educates and empowers in a hip, fun, stylish, and entertaining way.

Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecture Series - Making Links: A Parent-Professional Collaborative Approach - Janet Gonzalez- Mena
Tue, 30 Mar 2004, 7:00 PM – Mahlstede Room, Reiman Gardens - Janet Gonzalez-Mena is a consultant, trainer, author, teacher, and director. She has expertise working with early childhood programs, infants and toddlers, abused and neglected children, children with special needs, and diversity issues.

A Multi-Media Presentation: I Hope You Don't Mind Me Asking - Kip Fulbeck
Tue, 30 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kip Fulbeck, is an Asian American multicultural expert whose videos tackle Asian Americans' issues with regard to race, using humor, combined with manipulated television and movie clips and fast-paced personal monologues. He is a professor of art and Asian American Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

American Indian Symposium - Native American Flute Performance - Bryan Akipa
Wed, 31 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Bryan Akipa is a member of the Sisseton/Wahpeton Dakota Nation and internationally known for his craftsmanship in music/dance and storytelling performances. He has been nominated for several Native American Music Awards and has several recordings including Thunderflute, Tribal Winds, and Eagle Drums.

Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture - Salvation: Who can be Saved? A Catholic Perspective - Fahey
Wed, 31 Mar 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Fahey is editor of THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, a major US Catholic theological journal, and the Emmett Doerr Distinguished Professor of Catholic Theology at Marquette University. He recently received the John Courtney Murray Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theology by the Catholic TheologicalSociety of America.

Bioethics Program - World Hunger and International Justice - Hugh LaFollette
Thu, 01 Apr 2004, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Hugh LaFollette, is professor of Philosophy at East Tennessee University, author of Morality and Personal Relationships, and a wide variety of works in bioethics, practical ethics and policy, and ethical theory.

American Indian Symposium - Peoples of Place: Environment, Culture and Technology - Daniel Wildcat
Thu, 01 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Daniel Wildcat is co-director of HERS - Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and a faculty member at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. The Center is a non-profit Native American research center to facilitate technology transfer to tribal governments and Native communities, the transfer of accurate environmental information to tribes and research opportunities to tribal college faculty and students throughout the United States. He is co-author of Power and Place: Indian Education in America and a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma.

American Indian Symposium - Native American Perspectives on Sacred Lands - Clyde Bellecourt
Fri, 02 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Clyde Bellecourt is a lifelong proponent of American Indian civil and spiritual rights: co-founding of the American Indian Movement in 1968, marching on Washington, D.C. and occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in 1972, and participating in the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. Mr. Bellecourt's activism moved into education, spirituality, and cultural survival when he founded the Federation of Native American Controlled Survival Schools in 1975 and continues with his activities such as Founder and Chairman of the Circle for Survival Consortium 1980, Founder and Executive Director, Elaine M Stateley Peacemaker Center 1989, and Spiritual Organizer and Leader, Gathering of the Sacred Pipes Sundance and International Elders and Youth Spiritual Gathering 1991-1998. Mr. Bellecourt continues to hold positions with many of the organizations he founded and is a nationally known and highly sought after speaker on spirituality, American Indian civil rights, and sacred concerns.

9/11 and the War in Iraq - Bobby Muller
Sat, 03 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Bobby Muller is President of theVietnam Veterans of America Foundation. His commission with the US Marines began the same day he received his Bachelors in Business Administration from Hofstra University in 1968. As a Marine Lieutenant, he served as a combat infantry officer in Vietnam. In April of 1969, Muller was leading an assault when a bullet severed his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the chest down. His service in Vietnam and its aftermath changed his life. During rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx, NY, he experienced firsthand the problems of neglect, frustration and inadequate care being given to wounded veterans in the US. He decided to fight for fair and just treatment for all veterans by joining the anti-war movement, enrolling in law school at Hofstra and eventually serving as legal counsel for the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association. He founded Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) in 1978 and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) in 1980.

Civil War: The Battle for Marriage Rights - David Moats
Tue, 06 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David Moats is the editorial page editor of the Rutland Herald where he Won the Pulitizer Prize for editorial writing in 2001. He is also the author Of Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage, published by Harcourt in February 2004. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in English in 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan.

Institute on Naitonal Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - One Nation Under God? Where to Separate Church from State - Barry Lynn
Wed, 07 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Barry Lynn is executive director of American United for Separation of Church and State. In addition to his work as an activist and lawyer, he is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He is a frequent First Amendment commentator on television and radio including the Today Show, the O'Reilly Factor, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Hannity & Colmes, Good Morning America, and Larry King Live. He was a regular co-host of "Pat Buchanan and Company" and Col. Oliver North's "Review of the News," and has written for the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. He is the co-author of The Right to Religious Liberty: The Basic ACLU Guide to Religious Rights. He earned his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and his theology degree from Boston University School of Theology.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - Panel: George Bush's Environmental Politics
Thu, 08 Apr 2004, 7:00 PM – Reiman Garden's Auditorium - Admission Free - Osha Gray Davidson is the author of Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, The Progressive, Woman's Day, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun and many other publications. His other books include: Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean; The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef ;The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South; and Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle For Gun Control. Steffen Schmidt, University Professor, Political Science; Carolyn Raffensperger; and Katherine Perkins, WOI Radio Producer, will moderate.

Institute on National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - Nadine Strossen
Thu, 08 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Nadine Strossen became the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the American Civil Liberties Union as its president. A law professor at the New York School of Law since 1989, Nadine Strossen has written, lectured, and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. She is the author of Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women's Rights and Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

ENVIRONMENT: PERSONAL AS POLITICAL Women, Food, and Environmental Ethics Conference - Women and the Environment: Ecological Feminist Perspectives
Sat, 10 Apr 2004, 10:30 AM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Davion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, and is editor of the journal, Ethics and the Environment. Her areas of specialization include environmental ethics and feminist philosophy. Complete listing of conference under learn more.

Superconductivity: History and Modern State - Alexei Abrikosov
Mon, 12 Apr 2004, 4:10 PM – Room 5 Physics - Alexei Abrikosov shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics and is with the Argonne National Laboratory.

Unions 101 - Ryan Downing
Mon, 12 Apr 2004, 6:30 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Ryan Downing, UE - COGS, University of Iowa, will explain the concept of unions for graduate students and his experiences with graduate student unions at other universities. This presentation is sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Students Senate, Student Union Board/Forums, and Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).

Monsignor James A. Supple Chair of Catholic Studies Lecture - Priestly Celibacy in the Catholic Church: Origins, History, and Future - David Hunter
Mon, 12 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David G. Hunter, Professor of Religious Studies, holds the Monsignor James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Dr. Hunter received a doctorate in theology from the University of Notre Dame. For fifteen years Hunter taught at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has published numerous scholarly articles and several books including Marriage in the Early Church,

Spring 2004 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics - Carol Moseley Braun
Wed, 14 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carol Moseley Braun's public service career has included a number of historical "firsts." She was the first and only African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, serving from 1992-1998, and the first woman U.S. Senator from Illinois. In 2003-2004, she campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, setting a new record for women presidential candidates by making it onto the primary ballot in 20 states.

Attacks on the Press - Not Just Abroad - Terry Anderson
Thu, 15 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Terry Anderson was a correspondent in Lebanon when he taken hostage by Shiite militants and held for seven years. He and his wife, Madeleine Bassil, wrote the national best seller "Den of Lions" about his experience. He also wrote and narrated the prize-winning CNN and PBS documentary "Return to the Den of Lions" about his return to Lebanon and that country's recovery from its 16-year civil war. He taught journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism. He is honorary Co-Chairman with Walter Cronkite of the Committee to Protect Journalists and has received numerous awards for journalism and charitable work, including the first Free Spirit Award from the Freedom Forum. Ann Cooper is executive director of Committee to Protect Journalists. She previously worked as a reporter in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Washington, D.C. Appointed as NPR's first Moscow bureau chief in 1987, Cooper spent five years covering the tumultuous events of the times, including the failed coup attempt in Moscow. She co-edited a book of first-person accounts of that siege, Russia at the Barricades. She also covered Beijing and the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, and Johannesburg, South Africa, where her coverage won NPR an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in broadcast journalism. She has taught radio and international reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is herself a journalism graduate of Iowa State University. Larry Heinzerling has worked for the Associated Press for 35 years as a reporter, editor, chief of bureau, corporate executive and currently as deputy international editor for World Services. In the 1980s he took on a secret role for almost three years as journalist-diplomat in AP's behind-the-scenes efforts to free Terry Anderson from captivity as a hostage in Beirut.

VEISHEA Keynote Address - Patty Judge
Fri, 16 Apr 2004, 12:00 PM – Central Campus - Patty Judge is the Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Iowa.

Human Rights in Colombia - Floro Tunubala
Mon, 19 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, MU - Floro Tunubala is the first indigenous leader ever to hold a post of Governor in Colombia. He worked to develop proposals for manual eradication of coca and plans for alternative social and economic development with 6 governors in southern Colombiawhose departments were targeted for aerial fumigation inthe US government-funded Plan Colombia. He will speak on economic development issues and about communities organizing to resist involvement in armed conflict. Ludivia Giraldo Diaz, a community social psychologist from Cali, Colombia, is actively engaged in human rights work addressing the phenomenon of displacement. She is knowledgeable on women's and environmental dimensions of citizen participation in urban and rural areas. From 1993 to 2000 she worked with MINGA:Association for Alternative Social Development, a Bogota-based human rights organization with strong regional presence.

Institute on World Affairs Series - Terror in the Name of God - Jessica Stern
Wed, 21 Apr 2004, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jessica Stern is a U.S. expert on terrorism and author of TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD: Why Religious Militants Kill, named one of the Notable Books of 2003 by the New York Times. She served as Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was the director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council. She is also the author of The Ultimate Terrorists and of numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She is currently a lecturer at Harvard University. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master's of science degree from MIT, and a doctorate in public policy from Harvard. This is part of a series on "Israel's Quest for Peace; Past, Present and Future," planned by the Ames Coalition for Peace. Steffen Schmidt, professor of Political Science at ISU, will moderate.

Inaugural Kentner Fritz Lecture - Studies of Career-Related and Social Self-Efficacy Expectations - Nancy E. Betz
Thu, 22 Apr 2004, 4:00 PM – 1204 Kildee - Nancy E. Betz has authored two books: Career Psychology of Women with Louise Fitzgerald and Tests and Assessment with Bruce Walsh. She served as Editor of the Journal of Vocational Behavior from 1984 to 1990. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Journal of Career Assessment, and Psychology of Women Quarterly. She is a Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University with research interests in applications of self-efficacy theory to career development and vocational behavior, the career development of women, and barriers to careers in the sciences and engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1976.

Issues in Agriculture - Changing Americans' Risky Diets - Catherine Woteki
Thu, 22 Apr 2004, 7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Catherine Woteki is dean of the Iowa State University College of Agriculture.

Israel's Quest for Peace; Past, Present and Future - Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism
Thu, 06 May 2004, 8:00 PM – Ames City Auditorium - David Horovitz is the editor of the Jerusalem Report, frequent commentator on CNN, BBC and NPR, and writes from Israel for newspapers around the world. His latest book is Still Life With Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism. He is also the coauthor of Shalom, Friend, the 1996 biography of the late Yitzhak Rabin, and author of A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel. Adrian Bennett, ISU Professor Emeritus, will moderate.